Sacred Waters Collective

07/15/2025

For any of our Canadian relatives that aren't able to make it to Michigan, here's another opportunity and it's an excellent program!

🌙 Calling future Indigenous Doulas!
Join us and Aunties on the Road: Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula Collective for a 5-day, in-person Indigenous Doula Training, happening September 15–19, 2025. This training is FREE — but spots are limited!

📍 Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
🗓️ Deadline to apply: July 31, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.fnti.net/indigenous-doula-training

Aunties on the Road
Kenhtè:ke Family Health & Child Development Program

For more info, contact otsitsia.brant@fnti.net 🫶

06/25/2025

Hey friends! Please consider applying to present at the Indigenous Milk Medicine Week virtual conference!

📣 Now Re-Opened: Call for Indigenous Presenters!

🗓 Submit your proposal by July 1 for the Indigenous Milk Medicine Conference 2025 (Aug 11–14)

2025 theme is:
✨ Unapologetically Indigenous: Love, Landback, and Liberation✨

We are re-opening our Request for Proposals due to recent changes in continuing education options and to give our community more time to submit. We welcome presentations that uplift Indigenous knowledge, healing, and sovereignty in every form.

We’re seeking Indigenous-led session proposals that center:

✛ Kinship & community care
✛ Lactation, First food/infant feeding & birthwork
✛ Land-based healing & cultural practice
✛ Sovereignty, storytelling & resistance

🔗 Submit here: https://forms.gle/27TC4ZwAo6ZNy9138 [Link in bio]

Art by (Soni López-Chávez, Chichimeca)

06/10/2025

Apply for our upcoming trainings here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIBlSagNAW0LNHU69mgmIzQGEvnUjGg5gffSEdUQJOh8K8XQ/viewform

06/05/2025

Join us next week for a virtual session to talk about birth worker websites!

If you are a brand new doula trying to get your online presence started or maybe you don’t know if you even need a website, this is the perfect event for you.

We will be learning about platforms, prices, photos to use, common mistakes and more.

If you already have a website you would like us to review, add it in the registration form.

This workshop is open to BIPOC birth workers regardless of locations served.

Register here: https://forms.gle/E7ji9Hy5YV5kasGH7

06/02/2025

06/01/2025

Sacred Waters Collective is a young non-profit organization, and we are so thankful for our teachers, community, and supporters who have helped us begin accomplishing the start of a big vision for our communities. Miigwech!

05/31/2025

"Indigenous lactation consultants are fighting to reclaim breastfeeding as a ceremony while tackling one of Indian Country’s most fundamental health challenges."

Learn more here: https://qrco.de/bg0bYV

(Photo 📸): Alissa White said Native-led support she received during her pregnancy helped her know what to expect with breastfeeding.

03/30/2025

Another Indigenous IBCLC in Michigan!! Congrats Jamie! 🤎

Help us welcome Jamie to the team ❤️

Jamie Hubbard is an Indigenous doula and lactation consultant who honors birth and postpartum as sacred and transformative experiences. With a deep passion for milk medicine, she integrates traditional healing practices and herbs to nurture the body, mind, and spirit. This is Jamie's heart work, and she is committed to offering compassionate support to families on their journey.

Jamie is accepting new clients for home visits throughout Southwest Michigan, including Van Buren, Allegan, Ottawa, and Berrien counties. She looks forward to continuing to serve and uplift her community.

03/30/2025

Parents, mark your calendars. April 2 is when Michigan’s new car seat laws go into effect. If you break the law, you could get a ticket, but more importantly, these laws could save lives.

One big change is that children under the age of two must be in a rear-facing seat.

Once they turn 5, they can move to a booster seat using a lap and shoulder belt until they are 8, or until they reach 4-foot-9.

All children 13 and under must ride in the backseat of the car, if there is an open backseat.

There are some exceptions to these rules, including reaching the maximum weight or height allowed by the car seat’s manufacturer.

More here: https://www.wxyz.com/news/voices/michigans-new-car-seat-laws-go-into-effect-on-april-2-heres-what-you-need-to-know

03/26/2025

Follow us for more breast and chest feeding tips! 🍼

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Some parents rely on tactile cues to determine the last side they pumped or fed from. This tip may be helpful to some parents: utilizing a scrunchie or hairtie on your wrist as a reminder of the last side you pumped or fed from. Switch at each feed or pump to maintain balance.

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03/22/2025

Follow us for more breast & chestfeeding tips! 🍼

If you use the "haakaa", (the haakaa is a manual breast pump, that uses natural suction, made from food grade silicone- some parents find this to be a tool that works for them!), try running it under warm water before a session! The silicone retains heat for a short time and can help stimulate milk flow!

Questions about breastfeeding? Send us a DM! ❤️ We're here for you, babes AND your babes! 🤗😉👶🍼

03/17/2025

Follow us for breast & chestfeeding tips! 🍼

Adding human milk to baby's bath will help to calm & soothe baby during bath time! (Think parents milk smell = calm). Baths are a little less scary with parents smell close! It's also great for skin conditions like eczema or cradle cap!

If you've got pumped milk that can't be used for baby due to "expiring" this is a great way to still get use out of it!